geoff riggle

Traveled: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX. Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA. Gallery Loupe, Montclair, NJ. (International Juried Exhibition, Juror: Susan Sloan)

(National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Albertus Gorman)

(Invitational Exhibition, Curator: Betty Talbott)

North Gallery (MFA Thesis Exhibition)

Traveled: Ohio Designer Craftsman Museum, Columbus, OH. Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH. Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH. (National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Wendy H. Outland)

Target Gallery (National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Landria Shack)

Eva G. Farris Gallery (Juried Exhibition, Juror: Jennifer Feld)

Leeds Gallery (Invitational Exhibition)

(Invitational Exhibition)

Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery (Collaborative Exhibition, with Christian McLean, Director: Ann Taulbee)

Traveled: various venues across the Czech Republic as well as throughout the European Union (Invitational Exhibition, Organized by faculty with the University of Bohemia’s Institute of Art and Design)

Traveled: Ohio Designer Craftsman Museum, Columbus, OH. Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH. French Art Colony (Selections), Gallipolis, OH. (National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Brion Clinkingbeard)

Savannah College of Art and Design (National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Leonard Urso)

Hiestand Galleries (Group Exhibition, Director: Ann Taulbee)

Traveled: Ohio Designer Craftsman Museum, Columbus, OH. Artspace/Lima, Lima, OH. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH. (National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Gwen Heffner)

(Juried)

(Juried)

Jirku, Boris, et al. figurama 09. University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, 2009. (Exhibition Catalogue – pg. 123.)

LeVan, Marthe, ed. 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs: A Groundbreaking Survey of a Modern Material. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, Division of Sterling Publishing Company, 2009. pp. 12, 195. (International competitive review of artist submissions)

Clinkingbeard, Brion. Ohio Craft Museum – Best of 2008. Columbus, OH. Fall 2008, [PRESS RELEASE].

Williams, Sophie, ed. Effusions: Art Journal. Oxford, OH: Miami University. Vol. 15, Issue 2, Spring 2008, pp. 26-27.

LeVan, Marthe, ed. The Art of Jewelry: Paper Jewelry. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, Division of Sterling Publishing Company, 2006. pg. 138.(International competitive review of artist submissions)

Philippsen, Joel, “Molding Metal,” Daily News. April 20, 2004, 4. Muncie, IN.

ART 264 – Jewelry Design & Metals I (4 semesters)

Instructed students on the tools and techniques of metalsmithing and jewelry design. Taught students metalsmithing vocabulary and critiqued design and craft of work. Techniques taught: sawing, piercing, roller printing, riveting, soldering, raising, planishing, filing, finishing and stone setting.

Initiated and since fall 2008 have continued a working relationship spanning the departments of Art, Architecture & Interior Design, and Engineering through assisting undergraduate/graduate students’ studio work that utilized the resources available through the Engineering Department’s Rapid Prototyping and Fabrication Laboratory. Helped maintain, develop, and monitor use of computer-numeric-control (CNC) machine, rapid-prototyping machine, laser cutter, 3D scanner, and facility.

In addition to formal instruction responsibilities, 10 hours of duties including: assisting undergraduate jewelry/metals students with studio work, studio development and maintenance, monitoring tools and facility, organizing inventory.

ART/Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies 104 – Intro to Digital Art

Authored course for temporary offering during the summer of 2010. Introductory studio experience in the use of digital technology in the fine arts. Topics include digital imaging, motion graphics, editing and computer animation. This course will also trace technologically driven art from pioneering efforts to current trends, and the central role played by computers in the field of digital art.

Responsibilities included: Oversight of planning and execution of sale, administrative contact, registration of sale space, invitational letter to alumni, shipping and receiving of work, quality control.

ART 160 – Beginning Ceramics,(fall semester)

Introductory studio course for majors and non-majors. Covered basic hand-building techniques, wheel throwing, and mid range firing.

ART/Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies 260 – Intro to Arduino

Authored course for temporary offering during the summer of 2009. Introductory studio experience covering concepts of electricity and electronics, how to prototype circuitry on a breadboard, and the applications of Arduino boards and software for the development of interactive devices or environments. Students became familiar with the use and application of the hardware and software and how both can be implemented within the artistic process.

Led demonstration on Processing and Arduino and discussed collaborative process for Spatially Sensed Experience (SSE) with advanced drawing students [(ART 321- Drawing V).

Responsibilities included: assisting undergraduate sculpture students with studio work, studio development and maintenance, monitoring tools and facility, organizing inventory.

ART 261 – Ceramics I,(spring semester)

Instructed students on the tools and techniques of ceramics and the history of ceramics as craft/art. Taught students ceramics vocabulary and critiqued design and craft of work. Techniques taught: coil building, slab building, mold making, wheel throwing, wedging, staining, glazing, firing (bisque, glaze, raku) and basic ceramic/glaze chemistry.

Led demonstration of Bonny Doon deep draw press to advanced metals students.

Responsibilities included: assisting undergraduate jewelry/metals students with studio work, studio development and maintenance, monitoring tools and facility, organizing inventory.

Assisted with on and off site fabrication of a major public art sculpture located at Theodore M. Berry International Friendship Park. The Crystalline Tower by artists Susan Ewing and Vratislav Novak is a 3-sided stainless steel structure standing 85 feet tall, overlooking the Ohio River, with titanium panels, stainless steel mesh, and mica encased in polycarbonate on each façade all topped with a kinetic gold – leafed star.

Activities Instructor – Taught an introduction to ceramics workshop. Team-taught introduction to metals workshop. Assisted in graphic design workshop and printmaking workshop. Graded student journals using Blackboard.

Responsibilities included assisting in completion of artist’s work and maintaining studio equipment.

Developed multiple units and lessons in ceramics, 2-D design, drawing, Egyptian Art, Renaissance Art, Pablo Picasso/Cubism, Pop Art, and Graffiti Art. Assessed student achievement through traditional tests, project grades, group activities, and sketchbook portfolios. Taught Intro/Advanced Drawing, Art History, Ceramics, and Visual Communications. Facilitated Art Club Meetings.

Covered sprueing, investing, lost wax casting through bronze pours, and patination

Covered etching with PNP, chasing, engraving, Inlay techniques, and keum-boo.

Covered forge setup, basic hammering techniques, discussed metallurgy, and forge welding Damascus steel.

Covered mokume-gane, shakudo, shibuishi, patinas, and seamless mokume-gane rings.

Researched and discussed the history of public art, contracts, opportunities, and understanding the public art process.

Through observation and discussion studied teaching within a post-secondary environment, developed an introductory curriculum for medium of focus, developed a teaching philosophy, and observed an Introduction to Jewelry Design & Metalsmithing class for a full semester.

Covered lost-wax casting and enameling of hollow forms.

Covered methods of design and production of jewelry forms utilizing found objects.

Covered techniques of curving and threading fine silver, soldering, and granulation.

Assisted exhibit setup. Participated in hinge and plastics workshop.

Researched and authored internal grant for purchase and installation of computer controlled laser cutting and engraving equipment for School of Fine Arts, Miami Univeristy ($49,945)

Researched and co-authored internal grant for the purchase of multi-media digital projection equipment for Hiestand Galleries, Miami Univeristy ($4,940)

Financial support for the purchase of hardware to further develop Intro to Arduino (ART/IMS 260)

Competitive monetary award based on achievements outside of the university

Competitive graduate tuition remission scholarship

Competitive graduate tuition remission scholarship

Society of North American Goldsmiths – (SNAG)

Ohio Designer Craftsman – (ODC)

College Art Association – (CAA)

National Art Education Association – (NAEA)

Art Education Association of Indiana – (AEAI)